YouTube Founders to Sell Delicious, a Social Bookmarking Site

&quot;But Delicious remains a niche service, with roughly two million monthly active users submitting links.&quot;<p>I think this is one more reason to not build consumer apps. You can get millions of people to use something, but it still be considered &quot;niche&quot; or &quot;small&quot; and not really make much money.

I read somewhere that Yahoo refused to sell delicious back to Joshua Schachter when they were looking to ditch it.<p>I moved to pinboard.in when it came out and it&#x27;s exactly what I need, nothing more, and the guy who runs it keeps it simple. Really loved the sync to import all my existing delicious bookmarks.

For just straight up bookmarks, Pinboard.in is nearly perfect.<p>-Around $10 for a lifetime membership.<p>-Supports tags.<p>-Great search functionality.<p>-Bookmarklets for most browsers.<p>-Public or private bookmarks.<p>-Lightweight and fast.<p>I&#x27;ve been using it since 2010 and absolutely love it.

Ah crap.<p>This is a good time to remind everyone to use pinboard.in - the fee is one-time and you can sync from del.icio.us.

Do people still use Delicious? I thought everybody left after the horrendous redesign...<p>In any case, Pinboard.in is all around better, so I guess the redesign had it&#x27;s upside.

The announcement from Science is up: <a href="http://science-inc.com/about/blog/2014/05/08/welcome-delicious-as-the-cornerstone-asset-of-our-new-data-content-group/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;science-inc.com&#x2F;about&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2014&#x2F;05&#x2F;08&#x2F;welcome-delicio...</a>

Hmm all I get is the header and footer without any content, for those having a similar issue, Google has it cached : <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Adealbook.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F05%2F08%2Fdelicious-social-site-is-sold-by-youtube-founders%2F&amp;oq=cache%3Adealbook.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F05%2F08%2Fdelicious-social-site-is-sold-by-youtube-founders%2F&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.1647j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=91&amp;ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache%3Adealb...</a>

Delicious is from a different era. I don&#x27;t know if you all remember, but it was launched and influential when &quot;social&quot; powered sites (see Digg) were all the rage.<p>The most powerful feature of Delicious for me was the &#x2F;popular&#x2F; page, which showed me at a quick glance what sites&#x2F;pages were trending for that day. Usually it reflected what was on the home page of Digg, and a few other influential tech sites.<p>Moving forward, the idea of user generated content &amp; socially powered websites lost some steam (although the concept is still around) and Delicious lost it&#x27;s chance to make the site into a profitable force online.

I&#x27;ve been a long time Delicious user, and I&#x27;m still a Delicious user. I used to use the Firefox browser plugin until that stopped working. But I still continue with Delicious. Why not? It does what I need it to do.<p>But now I feel like I just want a self-hosted version of what Delicious does. I use my bookmarks for my own sake - I really don&#x27;t care about sharing them with others or discovering new links through Delicious. Should I self host or is there a better option for me?<p>Time to download my links before they disappear, I think.

In its day, Delicious was so great. I especially liked seeing what the rest of my &quot;network&quot; was bookmarking publicly. The UI was no-frills and it was perfect at that. As times changed, I moved on to pinboard.in then largely to storing locally and using Xmarks, to now relying just on Chrome&#x27;s sync across all devices.<p>It&#x27;s regrettable that Delicious didn&#x27;t succeed in the hands Yahoo. At this stage, the owners would probably be best trying to sell to someone or something food-related.

Pinterest is as good an execution of bookmarking (even if not thought about this way) as I&#x27;ve seen. What sets it apart is that content is very visual, organized by content and boards (directories) and easily discoverable. I visited delicious again, and all I see are tags and page titles.

I moved to pinboard a couple of years ago and couldn&#x27;t be happier with it.

The didn&#x27;t do a very good job during their tenure. As a user all I could tell that they did was re-architect and redesign the site several times without actually pushing the platform forward at all.

With diigo you can highlight the bits of the page that are actually interesting, as well as tagging.

Pinboard.in + Delibar = done.